A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.

A woman who suffered from an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder in her childhood recounts how her drive for perfection and incessant hand-washing rituals compromised her daily life and strained her relationship with her parents.

The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family’s nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

The life of one of the greatest showmen who ever lived, introducing some of the amazing performers who worked for him, and reviewing the impact his show has had on the world due to its incredible popularity.

The life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.

How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.

Brent Runyon was 14 years old when he set himself on fire. This is an intense retelling of that suicide attempt followed by a year of physical and psychological recovery conveys what it means to want to commit suicide.

After her police officer father is shot one night and barely gets away with his life, everything changes for Cylin's family when they are forced to move from their home and cut off ties with everyone they know in order to maintain their safety while the search for the attempted murderer continues.

The true story of a young girl who volunteered to go to the Polish ghetto to be with the remaining members of her family, was sent to a series of concentration camps, met and fell in love with a young man in a camp, and survived all the horrors of war after being placed on Schindler’s List.

The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. Graphic novel.

Whether trying to impress members of the girls' softball team--with disastrous dental results--or enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation, Crutcher's recollections of the tricky road to adulthood is both hilarious and unforgettable.